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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Enjoy … John g.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Pat White [mailto:cpmwhitehouse@windstream.net] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 25, 2013 11:01 PM<br><b>To:</b> gregory.manuel@va.gov; 'John Glisson'; 'DanielL'; Jeff White; Sonya Keefe<br><b>Subject:</b> Technology update<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>This looks very interesting. I would like to be one of their students. Pat<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Subject: Technology update</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:museo;color:#333333;background:white'>Visually Impaired Students Test Technology of the Future</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:museo;color:#333333'><img width=207 height=300 id="Picture_x0020_8" src="cid:image001.png@01CE87E4.CF088B60" alt="Hand holding a Galaxy S4 with Visus Technology software displayed"></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:.25in'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><em><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:museo;color:#333333'>Boston tech start-up developing groundbreaking technology for the blind</span></em><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:.25in'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span class=caps><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:museo;color:#333333'>NEWTON</span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:museo;color:#333333'>, MA — For the past two weeks, a Boston-based tech start-up, Visus Technology, Inc., with help from the Verizon Innovation Program., has been testing a potentially life-altering interactive wireless system with a group of severely visually impaired students attending a summer enrichment program at the Carroll Center for the Blind. This technology, which is expected to soon be ready for public use, will allow blind and visually impaired people to recognize faces, determine colors, and navigate their travel with the help of wireless technology.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:.25in'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:museo;color:#333333'>A group of students attending a summer enrichment program at the Carroll Center for the Blind has been introduced to the cutting edge technology known as the Visus Visual Assist System, a hands-free, assistive aid developed by Visus Technology, Inc. The solution takes advantage of Verizon’s 4G<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><span class=caps>LTE</span><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>network, and has been developed in collaboration with Verizon’s Innovation Center in Waltham.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:.25in'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:museo;color:#333333'>Visus Technology’s Visual Assist System is the first wireless mobile system that provides access to a wide assortment of assistive applications, allowing visually impaired people to become more fully engaged and integrated into the classroom, workplace and society.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:.25in'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:museo;color:#333333'>“Over the past two weeks, these kids have impacted the future of technology as we prepare for product launch,” according to Stephen J. McCormack, PhD the Chairman and<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><span class=caps>CEO</span><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>of Visus Technology, Inc.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:.25in'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:museo;color:#333333'>The students, who were introduced to the technology in the first week of the summer program, demonstrated their new skills at their graduation held Thursday, July 18 at the Carroll Center. While the music function was immediately popular among the students, they quickly found that the color recognition program would be helpful in coordinating wardrobe choices and object recognition could distinguish household objects such as a container of ketchup versus the mustard.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:.25in'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:museo;color:#333333'>“I can recognize some colors,” one visually impaired student said as he held a phone’s camera up to the tee-shirt he was wearing,” but this lets me know exactly what colors are on my shirt. It’s not just blue – it also has yellow lettering.” Another student laughed when his phone announced that the shirt he had selected to wear that day was ‘magenta.’ “I don’t even know what that color is,” he noted.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:.25in'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:museo;color:#333333'>“Visus technology, in combination with the Verizon Wireless network, could completely change the lives of the visually impaired,” Dr. McCormack explained. “The meaning of the word ‘visus’ is the power of sight and we are truly on the path toward recreating that experience for people without vision.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:.25in'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:museo;color:#333333'>Beginning last Monday (July 8) students at the Carroll Center for the Blind were introduced to the Visus platform using Verizon’s 4G<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><span class=caps>LTE</span><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>network on Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphones, provided by Samsung. Like most students their age, they were well acquainted with smartphone technology and quickly adapted to the assistive applications that were systematically added onto their phones. The response was resoundingly positive from these enthusiastic young people.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:.25in'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:museo;color:#333333'>“I have seen few solutions that have the potential for changing the lives of those who are blind or visually impaired as Visus Technology’s,” said Brian Charlson, Carroll Center’s director of technology. “While it does not restore vision, it can provide many of the advantages of sight including color identification, facial recognition and the reading of print all around us. To do all of this and much more in a single solution is truly unique.”</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:.25in'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:museo;color:#333333'>While these students were the first to try out the new system, Carroll Center for the Blind President Joseph F. Abely noted that the applications within the Visus Visual Assist System would have wide appeal among the visually impaired population.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:.25in'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:museo;color:#333333'>“More than 60 percent of the blind population are people over the age of 60,” he explained. “I would imagine they would love to have this technology in their hands. The Carroll Center for the Blind is all about giving newly blind people the confidence and the tools they need to regain their independence, so they can return to their community or the work place. The Visus Technology Visual Assist System is a groundbreaking step in that process.”</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><h2 style='background:white;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial'><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:museo;color:#333333'>About the Carroll Center for the Blind</span><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:museo'><o:p></o:p></span></h2><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:museo;color:#333333'>The Carroll Center for the Blind in Newton, MA serves the needs of blind and visually-impaired persons by providing rehabilitation, skills training, and educational opportunities to achieve independence, self-sufficiency, and self-fulfillment and by educating the public regarding the potential of persons who are blind and visually-impaired. For more information, please visit:<a href="http://www.carroll.org/" target="_blank" title="http://www.carroll.org"><span style='color:purple'>www.carroll.org</span></a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><h2 style='background:white;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial'><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:museo;color:#333333'>About Visus Technology, Inc.</span><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:museo'><o:p></o:p></span></h2><div style='margin-bottom:.25in'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:museo;color:#333333'>Visus is focused on the way visually impaired people will communicate, interact and ‘see’ through the Visus Visual Assist System. The company’s mission is to enhance life and benefit the integration of visually impaired people into society. Visus’ proprietary system provides a powerful technology to answer the essential needs of the visually impaired.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:museo;color:#333333'>For more information, please visit the Visus website at<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.visustech.com/" target="_blank" title="http://www.visustech.com"><span style='color:purple'>www.visustech.com</span></a><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Visus and the Visus Visual Assist System are trademarks of Visus Technology, Inc.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><h2 style='background:white;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial'><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:museo;color:#333333'>About the Verizon Innovation Program</span><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:museo'><o:p></o:p></span></h2><div style='margin-bottom:.25in'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:museo;color:#333333'>Verizon established its Innovation Program to encourage collaboration and help advance the 4G<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><span class=caps>LTE</span><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>ecosystem. The company’s<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><span class=caps>LTE</span><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Innovation Center on Waltham, MA and its Innovation Center in San Francisco, CA, were created to inspire, enable and develop non-traditional devices, services and applications that take advantage of Verizon Wireless’ industry-leading wireless networks. Through the Innovation Program, Verizon seeks to expand the possibilities of 4G<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><span class=caps>LTE</span><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>by working with diverse companies, from start-ups to established players, in industries representing a broad range of verticals.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><h2 style='background:white;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial'><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:museo;color:#333333'>For More Information</span><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:museo'><o:p></o:p></span></h2><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:museo;color:#333333'>For more information, read the Boston Globe Article,<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2013/07/21/for-blind-kids-smartphone-shows-way/RCxI74zW3ENnpMtXP02oNL/story.html" target="_blank"><span style='color:purple'>Software helps the blind see — via smartphones</span></a>.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:museo;color:#333333'>Originally<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><span class=meta-prep>Posted on</span><span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://carroll.org/2013/07/22/visually-impaired-students-test-technology-of-the-future" title="2:23 pm"><span class=entry-date><span style='color:#273E9C'>July 22, 2013</span></span></a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:museo;color:#333333'>Related articles can 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